Artificial fly



Jan. 20, 192 1523,1595

F. B. POTT ARTIFICIAL FLY Filed March 27, 1924 WITNESSES INVENTOR if q f ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 20, 1925.

v UNITED STATES FRANZ B. POTT, 0F MISSOULA, MONTANA.

ARTIFICIAL FLY.

Application filed March 27, 1924. Serial No. 702,400.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ B. Porr, a

citizen of the United States,'and resident of Missoula, in the county of Missoula and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Artificial Flies, of which. the following is a specification.

My invention relates to flies for use in angling, and consists in the combinations, constructions and arrangements herein de scribed and claimed. i

An object ofthe invention is to provide an artificial fly which closely resembles an .insectand at the same time isstrongly constructed so that it maybe used repeatedly without any appreciable impairment thereof. a t c Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the followingdescription, considered in conjunction with the accompany ing drawings, in which Figure '1 is a side elevation of an artiticial fly embodying the invention.

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1, showing the fly when partly completed, the head and body coverings thereof being in extended or unwrapped position.

Figure 3 is a plan view showing a fragmentary portion of the head covering member and illustrating the manner of supporting the hackle, and I Figure 4 is a View similar to Figure 3, showing a fra mentary portion of the body covering mem er.

In carrying out the invention, I make use of a core which in actual practice is the shank 1 of a hook 2 which may be of any known type of construction. The hook 2 of course is provided with the barbed portion at one end of the shank and may be provided at the other end of the shank with an eye 3 whereby the hook may be attached to a fishing line, not shown. An inner covering on the shank is provided by a silk thread or like flexible element Wound tightly around the shank as indicated at 4, one end of the thread preferably being secured to the shank by shellac or in any other suitable manner while the other end of the thread, which is located at the outer end of the shank preferably is free, as indicated at 5. A head covering member is designated generally 6 and is provided by -weaving. together three binding threads 7 and the intermediate portions of sets of hairs or bristles 8 so that the ends of the sets ofhairs or bristles 8 will extend substantially at right angles to the twisted together binding threads 7 in the manner of tufts, as best seen in Figure 3. These tufts are'spaced apart and are located "at intervals along the woven together binding threads 7. j v

The end portions of the binding threads at one end of the head covering member (3 are arranged about the shank l beneath certain of the convolutions of the inner covering 4 adjacent tothe outer end of the shank. sov that the head ---covering member 7 (3 is secured at one end to the shank. The binding threads 7 are tied together adjacent to their other end, as at 9 so that the head covering member 6 is provided at its outer end with tying ends, as indicated at 10.

The body covering member is designated generally 11 and is formed by weaving together two spaced apart carrying or tiller threads 12 and sets of hair or bristles 13, the intermediate portions of the sets of hairs S0 or bristles 13 being entwined about and between the respective threads 12 andrthe end portions of, the sets of hairs or bristles 13 being arranged to extend laterally and at right angles to the entwined intermediate 35 portions of the hairs 13 and the carrying threads 12, as clearly shown in Figure 4, the meeting end portions of adjacent sets of the hairs 13 overlapping and extending in superposed relation so that adjacent sets I0 of hairs 13 will be bound to each other through the agency of the carrying threads 12. With the arrangement described, the end portions of the sets of hairs 13 will extend from the entwined portions of such sets of hairs and the carrying threads 12 in tuft like relation, as at 14, the respective tuft portions being spaced apart.

The ends of the carrying threads 12 at one end of the body covering member 11 are 1 arranged beneath the convolutions of the inner covering 4: and thus are bound to the shank 1 at the juncture of the latter with the barbed portion of the hook. The carrying threads 12 are bound together at or ad jacent to their other ends, as indicated at 15 and are provided with tying ends 16.

The body covering member 11 now is wrapped about the inner covering 4 in spiral formation and is of sutlicient length to cover the inner covering 4 from the inner end of the latter to the juncture of the head coverand by other securing means, i

in member with the shank, the spiral convo utio-ns of the body covering member being bound to the inner covering 4 and therefore to the shank 1 by the tyin ends 16 desired. The head covering member 6 now is wound about the portion of theinner covering 4 extending from the juncture oi the head covering member and the inner covering to the outer end of the latter and is secured in place on the inner covering by means of the tying ends 10 and 5.-

With this arrangement, the tufts 8 of the head covering, member will have the individ- 15 siz and color and also a head of a desired.

size and color and therefore will resemble a given insect, as for-instancethe body of a so-called rock worm, which is an insect livingin the rocks of rivers and streams in the northwestern part of the Unit-ed States.

' Since the outer covering of the fly comprises only hairs and threads, it will be manifest thatthefiy will have a life-like appearmice when moved through the water and al'sdwill be very durable, the threads which are used preferably being made of silk or some other relatively strong material.

Obviously, my invention is susceptible of embodiment in forms other than that illustrated in the accompanying drawings and I therefore consider as my own all such modifications and adaptations of the form of the device herein described and set forth in the ap nded claims.

claim 1. An artificial fly com rising an elongated core. a covering for tie core resembling the body of an insect, and an elongated flexible head covering member secured to the core at one end of the bod covering and then being Wrapped about t 0 core at said one end of the body covering, said head covering member carrying a hackle and having tying elements at the normally outer end thereof whereby itmay be secured on said core.

2. An artificial fly comprising an elongated core, a covering for tie core resembling the body of an insect, and an elongated flexible head covering member secured to the core at one end of the body covering and then being wrapped about the core at said one end of the body covering, said head covering member comprising woven together spaced apart tufts of hairs and binding threads and having securing means at the normally, outer end thereof whereby the head covering member may be bound to said core in position on the latter, said tufts of hair extending outwardly from the core and providing a hackle.

FRANZ B. POTT. 

